he was accused of being a cia act. jill dougherty is covering this story. tell us about it. >> reporter: i think what you are seeing is russians are saying this is really a pattern. they are saying, number one, ryan fog el the most recent case has actually been they would argue was with the cia. they you into it before he came. it wasn't the first time he was spying. when he came to russia, they were watching him. they say over the past two years the united states has been upping its attempts to recruit russians, most of them intelligence agents to work for the cia. in fact, they say, as you pointed out, in january of this year an unnamed american also was expelled because of that. we asked the state departmentant. that they are not giving any details or confirming that. and then finally, they say, you know, it's simply, it was too much for them. the phrase is they tested our patients and it was beyond the pail and russia says they had to make this latest case very public, which they have been. so, carole, i think you can say there is a lot going on here, a